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The surviving members of the Beastie Boys have vowed not to record new music under the group's name after making a promise to late rapper Adam 'Mca' Yauch before his death in 2012. The hip-hop trio has not released any new material since 2011 album Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, and Michael 'Mike D' Diamond reveals fans won't be hearing anything else from the Beastie Boys now that co-founder Yauch is no longer alive.
He revealed the news during a New York court hearing in the band's ongoing copyright infringement battle against the bosses of Monster Beverage Corp, who stand accused of using five of the band's tracks in a promotional video without permission. During his testimony on Friday (30May14), Diamond admitted he and Adam 'Ad-Rock' Horovitz had made a vow with Yauch to prevent any new music being released without each member's input.
Testifying at Manhattan Federal Court, the Sabotage hitmaker said, "We have not been able to tour since MCA, Adam Yauch, died. We can't make new music." Diamond returned to the witness stand on Monday (02Jun14), when defence lawyer Dana Susman attempted to depict the band as hypocrites after the rapper claimed they had turned down "a lot of money" after producers behind Arnold Schwarzenegger's recent film Sabotage asked them for permission to use their 1994 song of the same name.
Diamond revealed they had rejected the offer because they "weren't fans of Mr. Schwarzenegger's recent... work", but Susman called the rapper out and suggested they had subsequently backtracked as their song was used as the action man's walk on music during a recent appearance on America's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Susman alleged the band had received a fee of $600 (£375) in exchange for allowing a snippet of the track to be used, but Diamond insisted he had no knowledge of the deal and claimed any agreement would have been because they are "fans of that show", reports the New York Daily News. The Beastie Boys had previously performed on Fallon's previous programme, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, prior to Yauch's death.

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When we last left our heroes, they had conquered all opponents in the 74th Annual Hunger Games, returned home to their newly refurbished living quarters in District 12, and fallen haplessly to the cannibalism of PTSD. And now we're back! Hitching our wagons once again to laconic Katniss Everdeen and her sweet-natured, just-for-the-camera boyfriend Peeta Mellark as they gear up for a second go at the Capitol's killing fields.
But hold your horses — there's a good hour and a half before we step back into the arena. However, the time spent with Katniss and Peeta before the announcement that they'll be competing again for the ceremonial Quarter Quell does not drag. In fact, it's got some of the film franchise's most interesting commentary about celebrity, reality television, and the media so far, well outweighing the merit of The Hunger Games' satire on the subject matter by having Katniss struggle with her responsibilities as Panem's idol. Does she abide by the command of status quo, delighting in the public's applause for her and keeping them complacently saturated with her smiles and curtsies? Or does Katniss hold three fingers high in opposition to the machine into which she has been thrown? It's a quarrel that the real Jennifer Lawrence would handle with a castigation of the media and a joke about sandwiches, or something... but her stakes are, admittedly, much lower. Harvey Weinstein isn't threatening to kill her secret boyfriend.
Through this chapter, Katniss also grapples with a more personal warfare: her devotion to Gale (despite her inability to commit to the idea of love) and her family, her complicated, moralistic affection for Peeta, her remorse over losing Rue, and her agonizing desire to flee the eye of the public and the Capitol. Oftentimes, Katniss' depression and guilty conscience transcends the bounds of sappy. Her soap opera scenes with a soot-covered Gale really push the limits, saved if only by the undeniable grace and charisma of star Lawrence at every step along the way of this film. So it's sappy, but never too sappy.
In fact, Catching Fire is a masterpiece of pushing limits as far as they'll extend before the point of diminishing returns. Director Francis Lawrence maintains an ambiance that lends to emotional investment but never imposes too much realism as to drip into territories of grit. All of Catching Fire lives in a dreamlike state, a stark contrast to Hunger Games' guttural, grimacing quality that robbed it of the life force Suzanne Collins pumped into her first novel.
Once we get to the thunderdome, our engines are effectively revved for the "fun part." Katniss, Peeta, and their array of allies and enemies traverse a nightmare course that seems perfectly suited for a videogame spin-off. At this point, we've spent just enough time with the secondary characters to grow a bit fond of them — deliberately obnoxious Finnick, jarringly provocative Johanna, offbeat geeks Beedee and Wiress — but not quite enough to dissolve the mystery surrounding any of them or their true intentions (which become more and more enigmatic as the film progresses). We only need adhere to Katniss and Peeta once tossed in the pit of doom that is the 75th Hunger Games arena, but finding real characters in the other tributes makes for a far more fun round of extreme manhunt.
But Catching Fire doesn't vie for anything particularly grand. It entertains and engages, having fun with and anchoring weight to its characters and circumstances, but stays within the expected confines of what a Hunger Games movie can be. It's a good one, but without shooting for succinctly interesting or surprising work with Katniss and her relationships or taking a stab at anything but the obvious in terms of sending up the militant tyrannical autocracy, it never even closes in on the possibility of being a great one.
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Teens travel in packs. Every fool knows that. In fact, all of us like to be surrounded by our buds. It takes the sting off down time, and makes everything cooler. Except getting slashed by a psycho. Then a posse is no help at all. Sometimes they even make it worse.
All deference to the You’re Alone And Somebody’s In The House With You genre, we can't seem to get enough of teens getting killed in packs. And there's more than a little box office proof of it: Halloween, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street and multiple Screams, for starters. Is it simply scarier, thinking there's safety in numbers and finding it isn't so? Or do we just like to see our teens separated from the herd, like gazelles?
Or is it a form of cultural revenge for pubescent pecking orders, like throwing a jock up against the lockers for a change or shaving a cheerleader's head? That’s how I see it.
So Nerds, unite. And throw a mini-festival for you and your art school pals, where teens get picked off from the crowd.
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Where we left off: Saul (Mandy Patinkin) threw Carrie (Claire Danes) under the bus and blamed the CIA's failures on her mental instabilities; Dana (Morgan Saylor) was released from therapy after she tried to kill herself; Quinn (Rupert Friend) accidentally killed a young boy; and Brody (Damian Lewis) is probably still hanging out in the Canadian woods. (Check out our recap of Homeland's season premiere if you need more of a refresher.)
"Uh… Oo… Aw…"In the second episode of season three of Homeland, Saul continues to track down those responsible for the Langley attack, Quinn struggles with the death of the young boy he shot, Dana and Jessica (Morena Baccarin) attempt to fix their family problems, and Carrie goes off the deep end (thanks to Saul and the CIA).
After a slow start to the third season (nothing very exciting happened in the premiere), the second episode had the perfect opportunity to bring back the intrigue and suspense that Homeland is known for. Instead, it fell flat... and was kind of prejudiced.
In an attempt to further the Langley investigation, Saul brings in analyst Fara Sherazi (Nazanin Boniadi) to trace bank statements that are connected to Iran. However, Fara shows up wearing a Hijab, which apparently the CIA and, more shockingly, Saul find disrespectful. Seeing as how the year is 2013, it seems a little ridiculous that the CIA would find offense in a woman wearing a piece of religious garb, which is her right. Within the span of two episodes, from pushing Carrie under the bus and verbally attacking a woman for wearing a Hijab, Saul has become one of the most unlikeable characters on the show (and that’s saying something, since Dana is still around). And as far as the plot goes, Fara is excellent at her job and was able to connect an American banker to people in the Iranian government – we'll see how this plotline progresses as the season goes on.
Unfortunately, Saul doesn’t stop there. He sticks the knife even deeper into Carrie's wound and orders that she have a psych evaluation, which, as we should expect for Carrie, does not go over well. (To be fair, the reason Saul had to do that to her was because she was going around trying to share CIA/government secrets to journalists, which is a pretty big no-no.) Carrie has reached a level of anger that is incredibly scary and off-putting. When she meets with the doctor, she says, "I'm beyond calm. I'm f**king Zen." And when Quinn comes to visit her, she screams at him and makes him leave. How are we supposed to get behind a character who yells at people in every scene? And how are we supposed to support Saul when he's lost all semblance of a moral high ground?
As for Dana and Jessica, there is finally a breakthrough in their relationship. After a highly ineffective trip to the therapist – where Jessica seemed to be more immature than Dana – and Dan' sexual escapade with her boyfriend in a mental ward (seriously, stop taking nude pics, Dana – don’t you know they end up on the Internet?), the feuding mother and daughter were able to have a therapeutic moment together. In one of the most authentic moments of the episode, Dana screams at her mom, "I am not crazy, and in case you're wondering, neither are you. Dad was crazy … he was a psycho who did nothing but lie from the minute he set foot in this house, and he ruined our lives. It's the truth." It is exactly what Jessica needed to hear, and hopefully this overdrawn Brody family mope-fest will be done with.
The fact that Dana and Jessica became the saviors in this episode is nothing good. Saul and Carrie are supposed to be the characters we look to every week, not the ones that make us want to change the channel.
Plot-hole in the episode:In the premiere it was publically admitted that Carrie had a relationship with the supposed bomber (Brody); why isn’t she locked up in an interrogation room and being questioned about her involvement with the bombing? I highly doubt that the U.S. government or the president would allow someone with those connections to roam freely.
Highlight of the episode:Saul's epic Carrie-directed quote is now a voiceover in the opening credits: "You’re the dumbest and smartest f**king person I’ve ever known."
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Let’s see, where did we leave off with Season 2 of Homeland? Brody (Damian Lewis) is hiding in the Canadian woods (presumably surviving off of fresh maple syrup), his family is about to start suffering the repercussions of his terrorist ties, Saul (Mandy Patinkin) is now in charge of the CIA and has to fix some minor things (you know, the bomb that killed over 200 civilians), and Carrie (Claire Danes) needs to pull it together. Sounds like Homeland to me. (If you need a more detailed reminder of the season, check out my season two finale refresher recap.)
Truth be told, after the end of season two, I was about ready to give up on Homeland. There’s no denying that the second half of the season just wasn’t up to par with the quality of season one; it had plot-holes and the story didn’t seem to be progressing in any specific direction. And worse yet, the thrill of the spy drama became muddled with the far-from-perfect romantic relationship between Carrie and Brody, which I personally could not get behind. (Carrie had Brody right where she wanted him and then her naïve heart got in the way of things.) However, the season two finale left us all wondering who Brody really is (again), and because of the Clue-loving fan inside of me that just couldn’t give up on the mystery of it all, I’m back for the third season.
"Tin Man Is Down"
Based on this episode, it’s clear that the writers and producers of Homeland have been listening to the viewers because they have reverted back to their old ways: making us question Brody’s innocence and Carrie’s sanity. Why? Because they know it’s what got us hooked in the first place. The question in season one was whether or not Brody had been turned, and the drama of it was that Carrie believed that he had been, but no one would believe her. Cut to the season three premiere: the audience doesn’t know if Brody’s the good guy or the bad guy, and once again, Carrie is fighting to prove that she’s right about Brody (only this time, she’s trying to prove his innocence).
I thought I would be satisfied getting back some of what made season one so addicting, but unfortunately, the plotline so far is just too similar to what we’ve seen before: Carrie has stopped taking her meds (big surprise) and no one believes her story about Brody. Déjà vu, anyone? The episode was slow moving, and while it did have a spy scene similar to the ones in the episodes of yesteryear, it wasn’t enough to pull it all together. There was effort to put more emphasis on Saul, Dana (Morgan Saylor), and Quinn (Rupert Friend), but so far, their stories don’t have a strong enough pull.
The episode begins with a shirtless Quinn (so far, so good) assembling what appears to be a bomb, but quickly switches over to Carrie being questioned at a hearing. Thanks to the bombing from last season, the CIA is in some serious trouble, and some higher-ups in the government want to demolish it for good. (The fact that the show so nonchalantly talks about the CIA simply being shut down seems quite unrealistic, but then again, Homeland seems to thrive off imagined situations. In the show’s credit, later on in the episode Saul explains that the CIA’s charter says that it can be shut down.)
The person interrogating Carrie, Senator Andrew Lockhart (Tracy Letts), asks, “How can the CIA protect this country if it can’t even protect itself?” Snap. Carrie proceeds to muffle a Claire Dane’s cry-face and admits that Abu Nazir outsmarted her. You can see the guilt engulfing her as she admits her mistake.
The hearing is called to recess, and the camera cuts to her notepad, which is covered in theories and crazy notes, very similar to the massive chart she had on her living room wall (again, repeating storylines). It turns out that Carrie has stopped taking her meds because she believes it’s what prevented her from stopping the bombing. She copes with everything that’s going on in her life by buying an insane amount of alcohol and having sex with a random guy she meets in the liquor store. So, things are obviously going well for her.
Meanwhile, Dana has some serious issues of her own. Apparently she tried to commit suicide and is graduating from a therapy program. While I’m usually irritated by almost everything that Dana does (she’s just so moody), her “cry for help” was completely realistic -- she found out that her dad is/was a terrorist and she just couldn’t cope. But then she goes right back to being predictable and irritating Dana when it’s revealed that she’s involved with another patient, Leo Carras (Sam Underwood), who she likes to send nudey pics to.
I was hoping that Dana would have grown up a little more, but it seems like the show is still going to have a focus on Dana’s teenage immaturity. As for the rest of her family, Jessica (Morena Baccarin) and Chris (Jackson Pace), not much else has changed in their lives except for Jessica’s mom moving into the house (her character seems relatively annoying and unnecessary).
As for Saul, he has taken over for Estes as head of the CIA and is currently in the middle of catching the culprits responsible for the attack. (The President obviously wants to get Brody, but since they don’t know where he is, Saul has to eliminate other players that were involved with the bombing.) Saul has to decide if he’s ready to approve a mission to take out six men -- an ethical dilemma that runs the course of the entire episode. Mira (Sarita Choudhury) is back in the States, and she’s the voice of reason in Saul’s life. According to her, “the world is paralyzing” him. He can’t decide what to do about the mission, his relationship with Mira, or his problems with the CIA and Carrie. Mira’s right; he is paralyzed.
Saul eventually decides to OK the mission, and six separate hits are made within 15 minutes of each other (a scene that is supposed to excite us, but rather just falls flat). One of the hits is made by Quinn who fails to kill his target the first time around because the target’s child would have been harmed. However, when Quinn later successfully kills him, he mistakes the boy for another enemy target and accidently murders him. He is clearly distraught. Hopefully this emotional drama is foreshadowing an extended stay on the show for Quinn and a storyline that we can get behind.
Cutting back to the senate drama, it appears as if there’s a leak in the CIA that has been feeding incriminating information to Senator Lockhart. Carrie freaks out and accuses Saul and his CIA cronies for using her as a scapegoat, but they deny everything. But then at the end of the episode, an extremely surprising character change happens: Saul speaks at the hearing, and after patting his own back, blames the CIA’s mistakes on Carrie, her relationship with Brody, and her mental instability. Saul might not be the man we always thought he was.
The episode ends with Saul blindsiding Carrie and throwing her under the bus. While this was probably supposed to be the big ending that keeps us all hooked, it didn’t really have a shock-and-awe factor. Yes, Saul isn’t usually the one putting her down, and yes it was out of character for him, but we’ve all seen Carrie under a big pile of crap before. It’s nothing new.
This show isn’t supposed to be a courtroom drama with some looming government official breathing down the CIA’s neck. The show is at its best when Carrie is doing what she does best: being a spy. Saul’s CIA killing spree was exciting for all of three seconds, but it just doesn’t match up to the rush of adrenaline that we get when Carrie’s tracking down the bad guys. Hopefully Homeland will be able to pick up the pace and find its season three groove.
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I don’t know about you, but I’m in serious need of a Homeland Season 2 refresher. Yes, I remember the whole "Brody might have just killed over 200 people at CIA headquarters with a bomb" thing, but it's the smaller details that have slipped through the cracks. Like, remember when Brody basically gave Mike permission to keep on screwing Jessica and taking care of their kids? How selfless of him.
Here are a few other gems you might have forgotten:
1. Estes (David Harewood) ordered Peter Quinn (the devilishly good looking Rupert Friend) to kill Brody (Damian Lewis). Lucky for Brody, it looks like Quinn might have a heart (and maybe the hots for Carrie?) because he couldn't go through with it. Instead, he told Estes to back off or he’d kill him instead. Stick it to the man, Quinn.2. Brody and Carrie (Claire Danes) revisited the cabin and had something of a romantic getaway that involved Brody "fake" aiming a gun at Carrie's head. (Now that's what I call a relaxing vacay.)3. Brody decided to officially leave politics. (I would say that after you've killed the VP of the United States and gotten away with it, it's a good time to get out of the limelight.)4. Brody told Mike (Diego Klattenhoff) that he and Jessica (Morena Baccarin) were splitting up.5. Saul's (Mandy Patinkin) polygraph death sentence was redacted.6. Brody basically confessed to Dana (Morgan Saylor) that he almost set off the bomb in season one, and Dana was predictably offended by it.7. Saul went to Abu Nazir's (Navid Negahban) burial at the sea.8. Saul called out Carrie for loving Brody and working at the CIA. In an epically truthful Saul-way, he told her, "You’re the smartest and dumbest f**kin' person I’ve ever known." True that, Saul.9. Carrie, Saul, Brody, and a bunch of other people went to CIA headquarters for VP Walden’s (Jamey Sheridan) funeral. Carrie and Brody snuck off to an office, and Carrie told Brody that she was choosing him over her career, causing 21st century women to roll their eyes in disgust.10. But uh-oh, someone moved Brody’s car closer to the CIA building, and the next thing we knew a bomb exploded and killed over 200 people, including Walden’s family (including Dana’s bad-boy love interest, Finn) and Estes.11. Apparently the blow to the head caused by the bomb made Carrie believe that Brody didn’t set off the bomb (WHAT??), and she proceeded to help him cross the border and escape into the Canadian woods.12. Brody’s confession tape in season one was released to the public confirming that he’s a terrorist. Whoops.13. Saul was finally put in charge, and we found out that Mira (Sarita Choudhury) is coming back!! (Now that’s a relationship that I can root for.)
And that about sums up the end of season two. Who knows if the Homeland writers will be able to pull it together and make season three a success, but I’m willing to give it a shot. A lot of people have been talking about giving up on the show, but I think that's just the frustration talking. And I get it. We’ve been toyed around with, and by keeping Brody alive and us wondering if he did it or not seems like a cheap way to keep us hanging on, but if it leads us to another adrenaline filled season of suspense, then I’m all in. My one request is that Dana cools her jets and stops being so mopey. Get a grip, Dana. Get a grip.
Season three of Homeland premieres Sept. 29 at 9 P.M. on Showtime.
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"Homeland: The Musical," a parody from Above Average's Eliot's Sketchpad, lets us laugh at just how ridiculous Showtime's Homeland can be — and just in time for the premiere of Season 3 on Sept. 29. We all know about Claire Danes' crying face, but what about Saul's stink-eye and Brody's vanishing son (what's his name?) who is mysteriously never around?
Above Average, Broadway Video’s newest venture for featuring original short form comedy, has successfully brought to light the humor of the spy/terrorism-drama-turned-love-story. And the description of the character line-up is top-notch: "From Carrie to Brody, Saul to Abu Nazir, the gang's all here — including pouty teenager, Dana." (Can we all just agree that Dana's teen angst sucks?)
Check out some of the songs featured in the video below:
1. "Fugue for Terrorists" with lyrics such as "I've got the guy right here/ His name's Abu Nazir/ And if the bomb goes off/ We'll all commandeer."2. "Carries Lament" with lyrics like "His wife may be smokin' hot/ But he's a fan of what I've got." (Does anyone else think that the woman who plays Carrie totally looks like Topanga from Boy Meets World?)3. (My personal favorite song) "Smile for Me, Dana" with Brody singing "Won't you please smile for me Dana?" and "I may be a decorated jarhead/ Still you look like you're eating a warhead." (Okay, now who thinks the woman playing Dana looks like Natalie Portman? It's like doppelganger heaven over here.)4. "Don't Get Saul Berenson Mad" with the lyrics "When I speak, it's a whisper/ You'll get lost in my whiskers." (Mandy Patinkin's beard is one of the most impressive aspects of the show.)5. "Always In My Heart," a duet with Brody and Carrie with the lyrics "Star-crossed lovers, ships in the night/ We're both kind of nuts, that's what makes it so right."
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Seth Meyers announced his new Weekend Update co-host this week, and we're feeling pretty good about this choice. Cecily Strong joined the Saturday Night Live cast just last year, and this high-profile gig surely came her way because of the huge impact she's made in her short tenure on the show. She excels at creating memorable characters; the common element in most of the successful recurring sketches that were established in the '12-'13 season was Cecily. She's already visited the Update desk as several characters; and no matter who she's playing, she and Seth have great comic chemistry.
Let's look back at Cecily's greatest hits from Season 38 and know that our fake news fate is in good hands.
The Girlfriends Talk Show
Cecily taps into our childhood insecurities with this one. She plays peppy Kyra, who hosts a teen talk show with her less-cool best friend Morgan (Aidy Bryant). She and her new, "awesome" girlfriend (Jennifer Lawrence and Anne Hathaway, so far) continually undermine poor Morgan until she's practically seething. Remember high school? That was fun.
"We're not porn stars anymore!"
The former-porn-stars-do-a-commercial sketch never fails, mostly because Strong and Vanessa Bayer have perfectly the ladies' signature garbled delivery ("Aff-lence. lux-ry. Mo-ey Chamben.") and blank-eyed stares. It's also an opportunity for the writers to trot out their best one-liners ("One time I did a weird shoot in Mexico. Two of the girls died, but I'm alive. Thanks, champagne!") and for hosts like Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck to put on some short-shorts and tap into their Boogie Nights fantasies.
Dana and Niff
Dana (Strong) and Niff (Bobby Moynihan) are sure that they're getting fired (from McDonald's or Barnes and Noble, depending on the episode), so they take that opportunity to air their personal greivances with all their co-workers. ("I know you copied those Mad Libs, Beverly. Ain't nobody that funny.") It kills, because the two deliver every insult with panache and committment and because we all, especially on our worst days, daydream about doing the same.
The Girl You Wish You Hadn't Started a Conversation With at a Party
The one and only downside to having Cecily as a Weekend Update co-host is that we will likely say goodbye to her most popular character, who cares too much about humankind's greatest problems to even find out what they are. Who will remind Seth to "learn a book" or ask the tough questions like, "What are we even doing? And like, don't"? Our world will be a much poorer, less socially-conscious place, but it's the price we'll have to pay.
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It was 20 years ago (yes, you're old) that skeptic Dana Scully first teamed up with believer Fox Mulder to investigate the FBI's creepiest cases. Plenty of guest stars joined leads David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in the paranormal paradise of The X-Files, including tons of actors who would later blow up in their own right. We've combed through the show's 200+ episodes to bring you 13 of its most significant cameos.
Seth Green
Seth Green already had a healthy filmography built up by the time he was cast as a teenage stoner in first season episode "Deep Throat." But his diner conversation with Special Agents Mulder and Scully probably had a big influence on his future career as showrunner of the geek-tastic cartoon series Robot Chicken.
Bradley Whitford
The West Wing star, next seen in the ABC comedy pilot Trophy Wife, plays a seismologist losing his grip in second season episode "Firewalker."
Felicity Huffman
Future Academy Award-nominee Felicity Huffman was trapped with our heroes while investigating the mysterious deaths of a research team at an Alaskan excavation project. She plays Dr. Nancy Da Silva in "Ice", one of the most suspenseful episodes in the entire series.
Ryan Reynolds
It's no surprise that Hollywood hottie Ryan Reynolds would be cast as a popular football player in third season episode "Syzygy." Of course, it's The X-Files, so his high school reign is cut short by two flaky teens driven mad by a rare planetary alignment.
Jack Black/Giovanni Ribisi
"D.P.O.", another third season episode, boasts not one, but two up-and-coming young actors. Jack Black's character owns an arcade where video-game obsessed teen Darin Peter Oswald (Giovanni Ribisi) hangs out when not using his mind to command lightning to kill anyone who pisses him off.Tony Shalhoub
A post-Wings, pre-Monk Tony Shalhoub stars as a dark matter researcher in season two episode "Soft Light." This one is also notable for being the first episode written by Vince Gilligan, who would go on to create a little show called Breaking Bad.
Shia LaBeouf
Teeny, tiny Shia LaBeouf can be found late in the series, pulling heart strings as a very ill young boy in season seven's "The Goldberg Variation."
Jewel Staite
Cutie Jewel Staite has huge nerd cred, having played a kidnapped girl in "Oubliette" from season three and then going on to star in Joss Whedon's epic space western Firefly. Would that the latter would have had as long a run as The X-Files.
Lucy Liu
What was it about the third season of The X-Files that predicted the future success of almost all its guest stars? We've got another one in Elementary star Lucy Liu, who is credited as "Lucy Alexis Liu" in "Hell Money."
Bryan Cranston
Bryan Cranston was hardly a nobody when he took the role of Patrick Crump in season six episode "Drive." But this appearance earns a spot on the list simply because the episode was another penned by staff writer Vince Gillian, who clearly remembered Cranston's desperate, tension-filled performance when casting Walter White.
John Hawkes
The X-Files creative team had a knack for sniffing out future Oscar nominees. Winter's Bone star John Hawkes played a tortured writer in sixth season episode "Milagro," a role written specifically for him.
Doug Hutchison
What could possibly be ickier than a bile-covered, liver-eating mutant who crawls around in sewer ducts? Ask 43-year-old character actor Doug Hutchison, who played classic X-Files monster Eugene Victor Tooms, about his marriage to 19-year-old attention seeker Courtney Stodden.
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